Perches are essential for all bird cages. Find a great selection of manzanita wood perches, wild rope perches to climb, or perches that help trim your bird's beak and nails. Drs. Foster and Smith offer perches at prices that please.
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Perches are essential for all bird cages. Find a great selection of manzanita wood perches, wild rope perches to climb, or perches that help trim your bird's beak and nails. Drs. Foster and Smith offer perches at prices that please.

We recommend the Cable Comfy Perch, a bendable rope perch that, depending on the length of cable you choose, lets you create loops, curves, and other interesting shapes. An ideal way to soothe and exercise tired feet.

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While I know this question is from a really long time ago, I thought I could add something for others looking at reasons why this could be happening to their parrot.

A bird can also fall from a perch if its nails get trimmed too short. This happened to my parrot at the vets and she kept slipping until she groomed her nails sharp again. She had a clean bill of health from the vet, it was just her nails, she would often fall off her perch and found it hard to sleep like that. Because of that I got her a flat perch in case that ever happens again.

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i know I'm late but to answer this, sometimes birds just go into really deep sleep lol I know my conure sleeps with me in the bed at night and likes to sleep in tight spaces ( my neck or armpit or inside shirt where warm) and i catch her falling forward when perched. Remember that they have nesting grounds in the wild so they do not perch on sticks unless they are just napping.

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My Jardines sometimes fall of her perch in the night.In every instance there were earthquake tremors. I live in central western NC, and yes this is earthquake territory. This fault line runs from the gulf coast clear into Michigan. Many places in the US have occasional seismic activity. Several years ago there was a quake that cracked the foundation and caused plaster to fall in my parents 175 yr old house in the mid Ohio valley. My bird falling off in the middle of the night taught me to listen or look at the news the next morning. In every instance the had ben tremors.

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of course the vet first but my young grey use to fall off his perch at night after I moved. I couldn't figure out why and so I stayed up late with a night light and to my surprise found a batch of baby mice in his cage eating his food and drinking his water and him huddled up on his top perch in a corner, cleared up the mice and no more problems. you never know what sets birds off but definately check dr. first that never hurts and could save your bird. if taken care of well they will probably outlive us. I know mine will and he will go to family. I hope your bird is ok. the other answers seem good to.

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I realize this is late, but I my uncle had an eclectus that was diagnosed with lead poisoning by his vet. His eclectus would just fall straight to the bottom of the cage a few times each night. He never screamed about it or got upset. He would just climb straight back up to his perch. His eclectus lived for many years after the vet told him that his bird had lead poisoning.

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I hope that you've contacted an avian vet about your bird falling & have gotten an answer by now.When birds sleep, half of their brain is still awake, partly so that they don't fall off of their perches while they're sleeping. I've had young cockatiels that fall off of their perches while they're asleep - causing the other tiels in the cage to go into "night fright". A night light helps them to get oriented with where they are in the cage & helps prevent injury. Again, I hope you've gotten an expert answer by now... and good luck!

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I have read that it's the diet that is insufficient causing the falling. If you use a seed mostly diet you need to supplement with vitamins in the water. I have 14 birds and use a seed diet and supplement with vitamins. I have a cockatiel that's around twenty four years old so seed only diets do work but only if you supplement.This is what I use...http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=5059+10441+6160&pcatid=6160Hopefully this will help with your situation.

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Thank you for your question. I see that you still haven't recieved any advice from other customers who have had similar experiences. If you are concerned about this behavior, we would recommend contacting your veterinarian.

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I would not use untreated western cedar because some cedars can cause respiratory problems. I would suggest apple branches after you have cleaned and dried them. Check with bird websites to find which trees are safe for chewing parrots.

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I would say untreated wood of any time could be bad cause of sickness could infect your bird so I wouldn't take any chances and just clean the wood maybe with soap,hot water and a good rinse before use and after use when needed :)

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I soak them in very hot water with a drop of dishsoap. Then rinse in hot water again. Dishsoap is generally safe, because I have seen it used to bathe birds in many instances. You can also use a very small amount of regular bleach in the hot water, but the hot water and dishsoap works best for me.

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I would go for the braided cotton rope for your amazon. Get several in different lengths cuz my amazon likes to chew on it also. I've replaced my wooden perches with the braided perches (and they are colorful).

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I have one very old Amazon Gray and one Green Wing Macaw that each have arthritis in their feet and toes. I purchased them heated perches, and both love them. It has helped each alot. Make sure you size the perch small enough to allow their feet to comfortably wrap the surface. Guard the wires carefully or they will get modified.

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